Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison

In a cautionary piece about teaching university-sponsored online courses, Times Higher Education (THE) quotes extensively from Professor Margaret Soltan’s remarks about the subject on her blog, University Diaries: “All sorts of eyes are peering into your online course. . . . Your students, naturally; but also university administrators, on-campus tech people, the for-profit firm your school has…

…. to Magali Armillas-Tiseyra (BA ’05), who is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University. Magali just landed a position as assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. English alumna Magai Armallis-Tiseyra will be joining the faculty at the Univ. of Mississippi … to Prof. Holly Dugan, whose recent book The Ephemeral…

Suffolk County New York Poet Laureate Pramila Venkateswaran Professor Pramila Venkateswaran, who received her PhD from GW’s English Department in 1988, recently became the Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York.  We chatted with Professor Venkateswaran about her selection as laureate, her poetry, and her memories of the GW English department: 1.    When did you graduate…

Beacon Press has just published a new book by Associate Professor of English Gayle Wald: Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Professor Wald teaches courses on African American literature, popular music, and U.S. culture in the department. Her previous book Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in 20th -Century U.S….

JMM Writer-in-Washington Kseniya Melnik Photo Credit: Morgan Demeter The Jenny McKean Moore Fund was established in honor of the late Jenny Moore, who was a playwrighting student at GW and who left in trust a fund that has, for almost forty years, encouraged the teaching and study of Creative Writing in the English Department, allowing us to…

English BA Chriselle Tidrick has followed an unusual career path since graduation. I received my B.A. from GW in 1994 with a major in English and a minor in Dance.  During my senior year, I had the opportunity to combine these loves by writing an honors thesis about how Isadora Duncan was portrayed through several…